Hi folks! I felt I needed to do something for a long time. I had too big of plans for TRK and was unable to work them out (because they were so big). So I did something smaller. I figured many people could do with some updated hardware support, so here it is.
Just a beta, but with a very recent kernel 4.7.0 and up-to-date ntfs-3g driver:
http://trinityhome.org/beta/trinity-rescue-kit.3.4-build-397.iso [1]
All other changes that have been done since the last stable can be read at ...

...or how the question was asked yesterday: "Is TRK dead? or are you?"
Well, no, not really. But I've been very busy with my daytime job and family expansion lately. But some work has been done, changes have been committed. People following it a bit know that issue tracking has been setup at bitbucket and can follow progress there and report bugs in a proper way instead of through the forum (which unfortunately I've been neglecting lately, partly because people tend to ask the same 100 ...

Finally, after much annoyances with my registrar IN, I changed over the domain name trinityhome.org to Easyhost. The problem with IN was that they failed to recognise there was a problem with updating the nameserver records. This resulted in only 1 nameserver being accessible, even more the one behind the most unreliable and slow link. Anyway, I 've added a 3rd nameserver, records are ok at the toplevel as well as my own DNS's, so you should see no more outages by a DNS failure anymore. Oh ...

Sorry people for all of you who tried to reach trinityhome.org the last 2 days (July 1 and 2). The server itself was not down actually, it was the whole datacenter. Apparently the fibre optic cables had been cut in the street and it took a while to locate where. The cables have been mended and we're back. Next time I'll make offsite backups and bring an alternative server online.

Trinity Rescue Kit just donated 500$ of your donations to the Ocean Cleanup project [1], which aims on cleaning up the ocean of ALL plastic within 5 years and make some money of it doing so. I believe science with an economical benefit is the ONLY solution to saving the planet and mankind. The idea you had about cleaning up the ocean from plastic debris with large booms is basically what I've been thinking about as well for years. I'm just not an engineer who could work out such an idea. ...

It 's been a while again since you heard some news about TRK, but it's back. Development has resumed and this time I will try to make it more structured and collaborative. Therefore I did a good cleanup of unneeded files, stripped all binaries and libraries, removed the dead and buried Trinity Remote Support Pack and upgraded the kernel to the latest 3.4.6.
Next, I published everything on bitbucket [1]as a Git repository (binaries included). And it's open for everyone to fork, clone, ...

Thank you spambots, you made me upgrade my old and worn out forum. You naughty naughty spammers.
Folks, for those who have made a post on the TRK forum between December 21 and now, December 28: it's gone, I 'm sorry. I had to restore a backup since the forum was so sickened by spambots who had posted about 70.000 topics, whereas up to then there were only about 5.000 over the course of 8 years.
But hey: here 's an out-of-the-box phpBB3 for you. It will prbobaly get some alterations and ...

Yes, yes, everyone keeps changing their AV engine download location and I have to follow them. I thought many of them had broken permanently, but a vigilant TRK user directed me to all new working download locations of the antivirus soft.
Here ' s a status update:
-BitDefender failed to properly install. This alternate version installs and runs alright. Make sure you have enough RAM or run 'getswap [1]' first in a machine with 512Mb or less
-F-prot download location was broken. A new ...

Nice article on Customizing your own Trinity Rescue Kit. [1]
Teaches you how to change the logo and add software by using the TRK devkit.
Links:
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[1] http://www.toniblogs.com/10/2011/linux/customizing-trinity-rescue-kit/

Yesterday I did a checkup on TRK and found out a few virusscan antivirus-engine links had broken or were at newer versions.
As TRK 'virusscan' users may know, 'virusscan' is a wrapper script that fetches external AV engines from the internet and uses a pointer where to find them from a url which it gets on a secure connection to trinityhome.org
Here 's the status of the 5 AV engines integrated in TRK 'virusscan':
-ClamAV: updated from 0.97.1 to 0.97.2. Update will happen automatically ...

It's been 8 months now since the first 3.4 build, so I figured it was time for an updated release, now at build 372.
There are no world shocking changes in this release, but it might be important for people using recent hardware.
Here 's the changelog since TRK 3.4 build 367:
-kernel 2.6.37.1
-hfsplusutilities 1.0.4-r1 (Gentoo sources) for Mac support
-hfs, hfsplus added as filesystem to mountallfs
-recompiled ntfsprogs with ntfsck. Don't expect too much from ntfsck: it's a very ...

Journalists from the German Linux Magazin [1] reported us that TRK was generating dangerous false positives when using virusscan in combination with ClamAV, the default TRK virusscan scan engine.
I immediately responded by asking logfiles and there I found out the false positive came from a combination of using Clamav 0.96.1 together with signature files between 2011-02-04 and 2011-02-07
Luckily, updating to version 0.96.5 fixes the problem. User who now run virusscan under TRK, will ...

Podnutz, a website about computer repair, did a podcast interview with Tom Kerremans about Trinity Rescue Kit.
Go to http://www.podnutz.com/ [1]or download and listen to the interview here [2]
Put it on your mp3 player, it takes about an hour. You might learn some more great tips on TRK.
Links:
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[1] http://www.podnutz.com/
[2] http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.podnutz.com/episodes/podnutz/podnutz052.mp3

A couple of days ago I've updated and released the development kit for TRK 3.4 [1].
All you need to run it is VMWare or an equal emulator that can import VMware vm's.
Links:
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[1] http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=DEVELOP_YOUR_OWN_TRINITY_RESCUE_KIT&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en

Big news from the Trinity Rescue Kit camp: an all new version of the live distro has just been published after almost a year of (public) silence.
People, we can't hide our excitement: the new TRK 3.4 is better, easier and more debugged than ever before!
The biggest visible enhancement here is the addition of a menu interface. Not a graphical one -who needs that in a rescue distribution?- but a text based, scrollable menu from which any regular computer user can perform otherwise ...

Around 30-31st of January 2010 this website was as good as down. Unfortunately this was not the first time. But the difference was that it came back on its own, so it gave me an opportunity to trace the cause of the problems. Apparently the server went out-of-memory because of too many smtp-connections (too much spam).
I made some adjustments to prevent excessive memory usage, hopefully the problems are gone now.

]]>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:36:04 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=248Virusscan: what works and what nothttp://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=247

A quick update on TRK's virusscan, the antivirus program wrapper in TRK.
-Grisoft AVG is broken ever since they upgraded to a newer version. The usage has completely changed and virusscan is not adapted for it. In the next version of TRK, AVG will be thrown out because version 8.5 for Linux has no more cleaning capabilities. For now it has been marked as a "dead feature" and will refuse to work in TRK
-Work is in progress for a new version of TRK and I'm adding Avast as a virusscanner.
...

Every now and then in human history an invention or discovery comes along that reshapes the foundation of our future.
Now may be such a time.
What if an energy source was to be invented that just takes water to generate power between 100 and 200 times greater than that of combustion from fossil fuel?
What if that energy generation was completely environment friendly and the by-product resulted in a new and very useful matter?
Well, that's exactly what Blacklight Power has done.
...

Just a minor change but with big impact to network booting TRK users.
As I stated before I was unable to test everything and as it turned out, network booting had some errors.
So a kind user pointed out this bug + solution in the TRK forum [1]. I immediately made the changes and tested it this time.
So now 3.3 build 334 is available for download instead of 333
Links:
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[1] http://trinityhome.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=967

It's been a while again, but here 's another intermediate version of TRK. I don't have much time to work on it, so this is unfinished but usable.
Main reason to release this is that people are asking me for newer driver support. So there's a pretty recent kernel 2.6.29.3 in it. But the biggest feature is the rpm support which allows you to install packages of your own.
Below is a description of the new features
-mclone version 1.1: this version of mclone supports network compression ...

There are new versions for both BitDefender and F-prot and they point
to a different download url now.
I have adapted these URLs on my webserver.
The new F-prot seems to work ok.
The new Bitdefender has install problems because the install path
has changed and tries to install itself to /usr (which is read-only on
CD in TRK). Luckilly, the old Bitdefender is still available, just the
download path has changed. So that one works too.
If it hadn't, I had to release a new version of TRK and ...

No doubt millions of people will have the problem with the Grisoft
Antivirus (AVG) that had a false positive on the windows user32.dll
file.
I had some PCs coming in too. Luckily not too many because ever
since AVG 8 came out, I 've been replacing it with Avast.
Nevertheless, some of my 'customers' still had an AVG and now had
BSOD's.
Here 's a way you can fix it with TRK.
If you 're lucky, the computer you 're working on has lots of
$Uninstall directories from patches and such where you ...

Thank you to all the American citizens who have voted for Barack
Obama. He will have a hard time cleaning up the mess of the 8 year
Republican debacle, but at least he gives hope to the world. My two
cents to the people of the U.S.A.: give this man time, don 't expect
things to change in 3 months. He 'll need at least his whole term of
presidency and probably even more to fix what's broken. And even
after that I 'd say: people, ALWAYS vote for the Democrats. If you
think back to recent ...

Yet another version of TRK 3.3, now at build 321.
This is a release candidate for the final TRK 3.3. After that, work
should start for TRK 4.0 and probably a long period of radio silenc
New stuff in this version:
-kernel 2.6.26. Hope this kernel is more stable on different
hardware. I also eliminated a serious disk performance flaw: it seems
that since some kernel around 2.6.23, the generic and slow IDE driver
had become the default, resulting on really slow I/O performance on
normally ...

For once, I wish I were a U.S. citizen. So I could at least give one
vote for a better future.
And that future lies NOT in the hands of John McCain
To all U.S. Americans who read this post: please, please, please: GO
AND VOTE OBAMA.
With great unbelief I recently learned from polls that John McCain
would have about as much votes as Obama. How is that possible? John
McCain is an extension of George Bush. I thought/hoped that after 8
years of Dark Ages with the George Bush jr. administration ...

Good news for me: my search for a job has ended and guess what.
I found the Linux job I 've been looking for all these years! As of
the 1st of August I 'm starting for the company GFDI/CPC [1] as a
Linux system engineer. It will be a very technical job, so finally a
real challenge for me.
Thanks to everyone that responded to my previous post!
Harakiri
Links:
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[1] http://trinityhome.org/javascript:void(0);/*1216907575619*/

Since more than 2 years I 've been working as an external IT
consultant for a company in the DIY industry.
Budget problems and global company politics are now putting an end
to this mission. The employer I work for is currently looking for
another assignment, but as summer holidays are arriving this might
become a challenging endeavour.
Therefore, I 'm about to open all registers into finding the
appropriate job opportunity.
And where else better than on the website where my skills are ...

Last year, in an impulsive mood (I regularly have them), I bought
myself a DVD/HDD recorder from the brand Stein.
It costed me 219€, has a 250Gb harddrive, is able to record
both to DVD as to harddrive and has analog 5.1 connectivity. Reason
enough for me to buy it.
... I thought ...
I connected it and I was surprised by the ease of installation:
channel installation was very straight forward and easy to
configure. It was only afterwards that it began to bother me ...

As of now, Trinity Rescue Kit has official commercial support.
Trinity has agreed in a partnership with the consultancy company Open
Computing [1] to give live and offline commercial support.
For years, people have been asking me whether they could be helped
by phone or online chat. Since I have my daytime job and already a lot
of work as it is, I could not provide this.
Well, now you can contact Open Computing who will help you with any
Linux problem you might have. Also Windows is ...

For all the sysadmins dealing with remote users: ever got tired of not
being able to remote control a workstation because it 's behind a
firewall or a NAT-router (like most home connections)?
Well, here 's the solution: Trinity Remote Support Pack for Windows
is a set of commonly available and free utilities (UltraVNC and
putty), glued together with some pretty simple scripts in a self
extracting package that allow an administrator to connect to any PC
with (almost) any type of Internet ...

.. a new version of Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3 (still beta)
For all new visitors to this site: if you want to use TRK to reset
winpass, it might not work with version 3.3 build 310. A newer version
of winpass is ready and will be shipped with a new release of TRK
3.3.
In the mean I recommend to try the stable TRK 3.2 first. It might
not support your hardware, but if it does, use that one for password
resets.
Expected release date should be around the 3rd week of april 2008.

This release should fix the most hot problems reported on the forum:
winpass and new Intel ethernet cards that weren 't supported.
-The problem with winpass was with Vista. Microsoft OSes are these
days "case aware", where Unix OSes are "case-sensitive". This means
that when Microsoft decides to name the folder "C:Windowssystem32" all
of a sudden to "C:WindowsSystem32" , they don 't get into trouble
because they don 't care about upper- or lowercase, but Linux does.
This meant that winpass ...

Finally, our little boy has arrived: meet Jeroom Kerremans, son of
Ingrid Renders and Tom Kerremans.
Already my best friend and such a good boy.
Don 't have much time to make an elaborate post, must get back to
the hospital :-)
Date of birth: 17-12-2007, 10:00
Weight: 3,33kg, height: 51cm.
Godfather: Steven Renders
Godmother: Lieve Teugels

It 's lack of time, let 's blame it on that: TRK 3.3 build 304
contains a major bug in winpass just because I didn 't test it all the
way through.
I got that fixed in a new build 306 now, the first mirror has pulled
it in (Garr), so please download that one now.
Build 306 also got a few more pata drivers (the ones not marked
experimental), so it should recognise a few more ide controllers on
brand new machines.
Let 's hope not too many new bugs come out of this one because any
moment now ...

Major nifty feature addition in this release: boot other TRKs over
the network from a running TRK! Yes indeed, after months of research,
hard brainwork and lots of trial and error I finally got it to work:
you can now boot a TRK from CD or USB stick and then boot other
machines over PXE without any change to your network environment (no
dhcp modifications, no resident tftp nor nfs server)
How does it work?
Well, the initial bootprinciple is similar to Microsoft RIS or
Novell Zenworks ...

]]>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:37:49 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=228If you see this post you're on the new webserver!http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=227

Trinityhome.org is now running on a new server with bigger bandwidth
thanks to the kind people of Ipcoast.
The current server is a virtual server on Xensource with about 5mb
bandwidth.
If you have any problems browsing the site, please post a comment.
Harakiri and Headhunter.

Here 's another beta for you to test.
Bootsplash, broken in build 300, is functional again thanks to a
patch I found yet somewhere else.
New in this version:
-kernel 2.6.23.1, which as of this writing is the latest kernel
available
-ntfs-3g 1.1004, the newest version of ntfs-3g
-hwdata 0.200: Fedora Core 7 HWData, which should help Kudzu find
more recent hardware and load appropriate drivers
-ethtool 5.1: latest ethtool to tweak your network card. People with
problematic cards under ...

Not much has changed, but here 's a alternative beta to download for
those having trouble with hardware support in build 299.
It 's got the latest 2.6.22.9 kernel and hopefully it will solve the
hardware support problems on some reported systems.
What also is new is the support for IDE raid. I 've added the latest
version of dmraid (1.00rc14).
This kernel has no bootsplash support since I don 't find any
up-to-date working patches for bootsplash anymore. The maintainer of
the project ...

For all people wishing to contribute to or develop their own custom
version of TRK: I 've released an SDK tarball which contains all the
necessary binaries and scripts to build a new version of TRK.
The tarball is what will bake you a TRK 3.3 build 299 iso.
I 've come up with some breef documentation on how to get around in
it. I expect people who are about to mess around are experienced
Linux commandline users who are serious about bash scripting.
Check out this page [1] and download your ...

Because of broken functionality with the F-prot part of virusscan and
numerous incompatible new disk controlelrs, I am forced to release a
beta version of the upcoming TRK.
Version is now 3.3, build 299. The final version is supposed to be
4.0.
You 'll be pleased to find out that this intermediate TRK has
already lots of new functionality and bugfixes that were supposed to
go in the final version.
Here 's a sumup of what 's new since TRK 3.2 build 279:
-added a fifth antivirus engine to ...

Maybe you 've been here before and you downloaded Trinity Rescue Kit
or maybe you are about to.
Trinity Rescue Kit is a completely free tool which can save you a
lot of money and agony. It is downloaded about 10.000 times/month and
donations don 't exactly match up to that amount of downloads.
Now here 's a way to help Trinity Rescue Kit and it doesn 't cost
you anything: you can vote for my colleague Philippe Hurtgen and me,
Tom Kerremans by submitting your e-mail address on the ...

Today I was quite amused when my cat got face-to-face with the Beegle
of my mother in law.
Each time the dog, Wibo, comes over, he can run freely in the
garden. And so can Janneke, our cat.
But as with most cats and dogs, they are not so fond of eachother,
although they 're both very curious.
So Janneke strolls on the roof of my shed, provoking the dog rolling
over on the side. This goes on for quite some time when all of a
sudden: bam, cat overboard! She falls off at about 1 feet next to ...

Big was my surprise when I saw this animal almost walking into my
garden.
It 's some sort of deer (a bambi?) and it 's only the second time I
've witnessed it in the wild in my own neighbourhood.
This time I had my camera handy, and with maximum zoom + digital
zoom I managed to shoot this grainy picture (150m away). It was
getting rather dark, so ISO values were shooting through the ceiling.
Nonetheless, the animal is very clearly recognizable.

People who 've been using "virusscan -a avg" might have noticed that
this functionality got broken.
It is because Grisoft changed the url of the download page of their
AVG rpm.
Luckily, TRK has the ability to adapt by contacting the trinityhome
webserver and download the new url.
I 've changed that url to point to the correct download page, gave
it a try with TRK 3.2 and it seems to be working nicely.
One caveat however, against which I can 't do anything: the filesize
of AVG rpm has grown ...

Quick post: it 's been a while since u ' ve heard anything from
Trinity Rescue Kit, but that doesn 't mean it ain't still alive and
kicking. Proof of that is the new Google pagerank, which after years
being a 5 has gone up 6. Wohoow!
Thanks to y 'all websites and users that showed interest in the
project. It 's much appreciated.
I hope to be releasing a new version of TRK very soon. Got something
ready, but it needs to be finished like I want it.

A new website, designed and created by my fellow Trinity member
headhunter has seen the daylight:
www.3care.be [1]
The site owner is another buddy of ours, Cedric, who 's into tree
and garden maintenance.
If you live in Belgium and you 've got a tree in your garden that
needs to be topped or chopped because it 's becoming a hazard, 3care
(read "tree care") are the guys you need.
Links:
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[1] http://www.3care.be

Tonight, thursday 22/03/2007, there will be a planned outage of this
website.
The reason is that this server will be physically moved from
Schaarbeek to Wemmel. Normally the new DSL line is already active,
otherwise it might be that the outage will last until 23/03/2007.

It is done. TRK 3.2 is officially released.
Build number is at 275, so that means a lot of work has gone into it
since the latest beta release which was 247.
A lot of work has also gone into documenting it all. Thanks to
Trinity member Headhunter, it 's been nicely integrated in
trinityhome.org 's CMS (with the option print-as-one-big-page)
Read all about it on the frontpage of TRK.
In short, the new and improved features:
-ntfs-3g: full read/write ntfs support
-virusscan can make use of ...

I noticed that Iconshock, the premier website for purchasing your
professional icons, have a bunch of FREE Vista Icons you can get.
For more information: http://www.iconshock.com/vista-icons.php [1]
Links:
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[1] http://www.iconshock.com/vista-icons.php

It seems BitDefender has updated their Linux version of their
virusscanner from 7.5-3 to 7.5-4, which also changes the download URL
used by TRK's virusscan script.
This is a scenario I had foreseen in TRK 3.2. I can adapt the url on
the trinityhome webserver so you get redirected to the correct url.
It will give you a warning that this url is not the same than the one
mentionned originally on TRK. You can then answer "y" if you want to
continue. Unfortunately, it will not continue.
But, ...

People who visit this site regularly (or maybe even once) might have
noticed that pages sometimes didn 't load correctly. It was as if the
Cascaded StyleSheets didn 't get included and you didn 't get any
proper lay-out.
Yesterday, I 've disabled caching and proxying of Trinityhome 's
Apache webserver (mod_cache, mod_disk_cache and mod_proxy). I 'm
curious if this is going to solve our problem.
The problem was more frequent with Firefox than with Internet
Explorer.
If this page (or any ...

]]>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:33:29 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=206Always control A control Chttp://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=7&blog_id=205

Sigh!
Just to let you know: when posting on forums or any web based form,
make it a habit to copy all of your typings to your clipboard. In
case your session got timed out .
Sigh!

Trinity Rescue Kit is a quite widely used tool. I know that, I see it
from the number of times it 's being downloaded (about 4000
times/month), I see it from the times it gets started and fetches its
message of the day.
What I lack is more feedback. The online poll we 've started already
sheds some light on how TRK is being used or what 's most important
about it.
But I would like real life examples, where you used it to save your
files, repair your PC or anything. I want to use that in ...

Yesterday I went to Deschouwer Moto's (in Belgium) with my wife to buy
a motorcycle. When walking through the showroom my eye feld on a
Suzuki SV 1000 N. It's a naked bike with a 1000cc 4-stroke V2 engine.
The one I bought is a second hand bike from 2005 with only 4800km on
the counter, Black-Silver color and a Titanium Leovince exhaust.
More pictures will come when I have the bike here at home.

A historical feature addition has seen the daylight in TRK 3.2 build
247 [1]. Although it was already a request a long time ago (from the
days of 1.1) [2], I 've only incorporated it now: TRK can run a Samba
fileserver and share all your local harddrives!
This feature opens up many doors in terms of accessiblity for non
Linux users who want access on their drives. A simple startup option
from the TRK 3.2 bootscreen allows you to share your drives. No Linux
knowledge required whatsoever.You ...

Trinity Rescue Kit bbuild 242 is now available for download.
This is the first TRK that is also distributed as a tar.gz file so
you upgrade your existing TRK on your USB stick. No need to burn any
new CD anymore. Instructions on how to do this available for both
from Windows as from Linux.
Bugfixes
-virusscan: AVG support is working again. Grisoft had taken their
tar.gz version of their antivirus offline.
TRK is adapted to download the .rpm file, convert it with rpm2cpio
and install it on ...

Just now when I released TRK 3.2 beta, Grisoft decides to remove AVG
for Linux Workstation from their download pages.
This means AVG support under TRK 3.2 is broken. I 'll be able to fix
it using AVG for Linux Email Server, but I 'm wondering whether it 's
really worth it since I 've still got three other antiviri.

New beta version of TRK 3.2 available.
Some of the new features
- fast, reliable and full read write ntfs access with ntfs-3g,
-4 different virusscan engines (2 more) integrated in one script (Clamav, F-prot, AVG and BitDefender)
-boot from USB storage, accompanied with a very fine install script.
-full proxyserver support (working this time)
...and way more, go read all about it.

Some might have noticed, yesterday this server went down. Apparently
one of the disks is failing, i.e. the disk where the backups are
being done to. Just now when Rez Kiyn [1] needed a restore (because
he accidentally destroyed all the pictures of his holiday to Thailand
on every location he had them).
Bad luck Rez, really bad luck. I 'll try to recuperate whatever I
can from that disk, but I suggest you fire up a TRK and start
recovering your pics from your SD cards with Photorec [2]
In the ...

I did a big cleanup in TRK 's forum user database. All users that had
no posts on their name were probably spamposters from who I removed
their posts in the past. About two third (!) of the users were
removed.

Monday evening I went to Aldi to get a few groceries. When I passed
the promotions corner, I couldn 't control myself when my arm reached
out to a box containing this:
Yes, indeed, I 'm watching the stars from now! For 40€ you get
a full fledged telescope. Of course I didn 't expect much from it, I
call it the Aiptek of the telescopes. But hey, it gives a decent
picture of planets or earth objects on the horizon. Unfortunately
many parts are quite shaky and joints kind of stiff. I 'm ...

Ntfs-3g [1] is a new userland ntfs driver for Linux, and it 's
véééry promising: full read-WRITE access, safe
and fast. I 've been doing a few tests and so far it looks very good.
This time no extra files to add to TRK, no limitations and how much
you can write, no crashes. Hmm, I can 't wait to release a new TRK
beta. But first do some more test myself (and add/adapt some
features).
If no problems are reported after beta testing, it will become the
default when ...

]]>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:34:01 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=1903 days of work for TRK... down the drainhttp://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=188

Raaaahhh, stupid me! Stupid me! Stupid me!
I needed a loopback file to create a test ntfs filesystem on. Stupid
me took the initrd file I use to develop TRK on! New script to
install TRK on USB: down the drain. Updated mountallfs: down the
drain.
Please hit me! I 'm such a dumb ass :((((

Due to daily spam posts in the blog comments section we had to add
some extra security on the comments post form. CAPTCHA verification
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Terrazaria, Noun (usually in the plural) : a non-homogeneous
collection of terraces on a common geographical location. Although
the terraces are not grouped together or aligned along a common axis,
they maintain a line of sight between each other, so it is possible
for visitors to easily change one terrace for another in a matter of
minutes.
Amongst potential locations to encounter terrazaria are Montmarte,
France and Velikij Novgorod, Russia.

[1]
This morning I got out of bed and was overall bored (not something
that happens too often), thus decided to install an old adventure
game and had some few hours of 'i can count the pixels' fun.
But to no avail, Windows XP simply refused to install the game, with
the infamous "General Protection Fault", a message I hadn't see for
almost a decade or so.
Links:
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[1] http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7086/356/1600/blast.jpg

The following story is loosely based on a at-the-job-situation.
During my last year as Computer Science-student, we had a course
called "Datacommunications" and as every self-respected networking
course, we used Andrew Tanenbaum's book, called Computer Networks,
which in my opinion is still the best networking related book that
money can buy [1]. For the exam, we had to study the better part of
the book and most students did flunk this course (btw I got a
whopping 90%). Over the past 6 years, ...

As many of you may know or not know or simple don’t care, I'm
one of those fools, who believes he can improve himself, by depriving
himself of the few free hours one has after work, and use them to
obtain an additional degree. In my case, a Master in Commercial
Sciences.
Why ? Well, there are a zillion reasons, but most all : I’m
still pissed (at myself) for never finishing my Master in Computer
Science 10 years ago. So, since obtaining a Master in Computer
Science is quite stupid ...

A couple of weeks ago, me and some friends went to see X-men 3 : The
Last Stand [1]. An awesome movie and a really must-see, if you're
into comics.
But I wouldn't dare to call myself a geek, if I accepted everything
they threw at me. Besides the incredible mutant powers, which in my
opinion, can be proven in a scientific way, there was a minor detail
that captured my attention during the film. In fact there are a lot
of details that captured my attention, but this one was worthy of ...

A new for something completely different: a crash course [1] in
Strategic Management.
I always wondered how certain companies stay in business. Everyone
knows the little restaurant of shop in the middle of your town and
every time you pass by, there isn't a single customer. How do they
survive? How do they pay their rent? How can they afford the BMW,
whereas I and my girlfriend both work full-time and even I can't
afford me one? (This is not completely true, but you know what I
mean). ...

For my final exam (only 2nd year, still one to go) we had to prepare
an assignment in group. One of my classmates was so kind to open up
his house to us and while sitting and working at his house, an old
feeling got hold of me : I want a house of myself. (Which is not so
strange, since it has been genetically imprinted in every Belgian).
So, one evening, instead of preparing for my exam, I started
searching the internet for a house and a miracle happened : I found
my dream house, it was ...

Today Feha of Vision.to pointed me on some pages that have ascended in
Google Page Rank. On most of our Blog pages we have a PR of 3 now,
while others still have to be assigned a PR . Before we transformed
the site, Harakiri had a PR of 5 on his TRK project page, now it is
PR 0 for the moment.
I noticed some strange ranking though, the page / dir
http://trinityhome.org/Home [1] has a PR of 5, while there is no
permanent redirect to this page / dir.
To the top!
Links:
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[1] ...

I'm proud to launch a new creation of mine and show it to the world:
Http://www.kdansevzw.be [1], a website about Baby swimming,
osteopathy and more. Note that this is only in Dutch.
Have a look around!
Links:
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[1] http://www.kdansevzw.be

The TRK download links weren 't working anymore because of the 301
redirect on the /trk dir (the site migration u know).
This has been solved now, sorry for the inconvenience.

]]>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:25:32 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=173By this I baptize this new site!http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=1&blog_id=172

Thank you Harakiri to let me the honor of officially open our new
TrinityHome website! I hope evryone likes the new structure and
design which is now updated to new html standards. There is still
some work to do, some pages needs content to be polished while others
have to be fine tuned, like converting the blog from tables to
table-less design, but I'm working on that and should be ready at the
end of the week.
If someone is having problems browsing the site or maybe have an
idea to add or ...

Today I came on a webshop called "Sony Center" (I think it's not an
official Sony website), where I subscribed to create a user account
and so received my account details by e-mail. The one who has
v-created the e-mail responder should have an update for he's
spelling checker. Note that it is in Dutch only!
Congratulations, U wordt nu ingeschrijft op het Sony Center website.
U heeft dit email adres someone@somewhere.com gekozen voor u
rekening:
Login : someone@somewhere.com
Password : ...

Since last Friday (02-06-06) I 've been missing my CD wallet.
I 've had it for about 8 years now (the whole of my carreer) and it
deserted me several times in the past, but never this long. It 's a
Caselogic that can hold 72 CD's. All of my important CD collection is
in there, but luckily I keep hardcopies of everything (or I know of
friends that have hardcopies).
Still, there are a few CD's in there that have been with me for quite
a few years now and it would be a shame to lose them.
I ...

Linux.com [1] has written a great review about Trinity Rescue Kit.
Always nice to know people talk about and use it. And this way TRK
becomes even more a fact in the world of Linux.
Read the review here [2].
In other news, Bill Essig has written a quick Cheat Sheet on TRK [3],
published on myspaceistakingover.com [4]
Links:
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[1] http://www.linux.com
[2]
http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/04/27/1929235.shtml?tid=129&tid=47&tid=23
[3] ...

It 's not my habit of posting non TRK related stuff on my newspage,
but this one I just HAD to tell the world.
Whilst looking to get better access to a hotspot at my girlfriend 's
apartment, I tried several possibilities to improve the weak signal I
was catching. This ranged from hanging out the window with antennas
and wifi adapters to commercial antenna amplifiers. But nothing
really boosted the signal to an acceptable rate. And building a tin
can antenna like described on many internet ...

Lately TRK is being overwhelmed it seems by offers for mirroring. So
there 's no more fear anymore about running out of bandwidth for
downloads, especially now that I got offered this extra 1 Gigabit
link from Garr [1] Networks in Italy.
Thank you Italy, and 12 points from Belgium at the next Eurosong
Festival ;-)
On the other hand, you 'll have to apologise me for my low
development activity. I just started at a new job and I 'm in the
middle of rebuilding my house, so coming even near TRK ...

My server just got rsynced, TRK 3.2 build 215 is available here [1],
still beta of course.
bugfixes:
-proxy parameters get prompted for when pressing "1" or "trk3 proxy"
at the isolinux prompt
-virusscan --avg is now able to run avgupdate (missing directories)
In the few time I had, I performed a few tests with putting TRK to a
USB stick. I got it as far as booting it 's initrd, but it doesn 't
find the drive it booted from. So this is still broken.
Links:
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[1] ...

It 's not in my policy to release unfinished versions, but since I
just changed jobs I won 't have the time to develop in a fast pace,
hence I 'm releasing a reasonably stable version of the next Trinity
Rescue Kit 3.2.
The new partially functional features are:
-virusscan --avg: Grisoft antivirus is now integrated in TRK by
downloading it from their site and running it. It is not yet possible
to integrate it in a new TRK iso with updatetrk, but it should
already be functional (I ran it a ...

Apparently the virusscanner in TRK is pretty popular, and by popular
demand I 'm in the process of incorporating AVG (Grisoft Antivirus)
for Linux [1] into the next release of TRK. It will be integrated in
the same way as with F-Prot, so using updatetrk or downloaded when
called for.
Another plan, also by popular demand, is to build a menu for TRK.
Unfortunately I don 't find any tools that easily create menus in
console or framebuffer mode, so I 'm planning to start programming
one myself ...

Since a few days my provider Versatel is having problems with the
ADSL line this server is running on. You might get to see this page,
you might not. Click several times if you don 't get any response
from this site. Hope the problems get resolved by the end of the day.
You can always fall back on the backup server [1]
The graphics for these pages are already kindly hosted by Mailshield
[2], so performance won 't be a bottleneck there.
Links:
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[1] ...

Due to massive publicity for TRK 3.1 and the heavy load on current
mirrors, I 've been offered yet another mirror today. This time by
the nice folks of Mailshield [1], Australia. With a 100mbit download
link, your copy of TRK should come in like a charm. Thanks for that!
Also, I 've copied the contents of this server to an alternate
server I 've got running somewhere. So if you find this site to be
offline, maybe Google will tell you about the backup server at
backup.trinityhome.org/trk ...

Still my mirror from Hyguard [1] seems to be down and Planetmirror
[2] failed to rsync the latest iso, here comes the rescue for the
Trinity Rescue: the kind people of the Open Source Lab of Oregon
State University [3] offered to mirror TRK on their servers, so
downloads should be available again and guaranteed for the future. I
hope this will take some of the load away from Hyguard [4] and make
their site available again.
Links:
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[1] http://www.hyguard.com
[2] ...

The release of Trinity Rescue Kit 3.1 got published at
distrowatch.com [1]. Apparently the attention is a bit too much for
my webserver and even for my 10mbit mirror Hyguard [2]. So if you get
to see this page but are unable to download from any of the mirrors,
please come back later.
Also, the Planetmirror [3] mirror only rsyncs every 24 hours, so it
's probably not up-to-date yet.
I 've already downsized the background a little and tweaked the
bandwidth of my server, so things should ...

Trinity Rescue Kit version 3.1 is a fact and ready for download. Be
sure not to burn it on a normal CD/R but a CD/RW. Here 's why:
One of the new features in TRK 3.1 is the ability to update itself
with Captive NTFS drivers and the latest antivirus + definitions.
After it has done this, it will recreate itself as a new iso-file
that you can burn to CD.
The reason why these updates are not inlcluded is obvious: the tools
and drivers it downloads are not GPL (or anywhere near) licensed ...

Well folks, I 'm not planning to turn this news announcement page
into my personal blog, but this time I 'm calling for an exception.
The last few days of my life have been quite tumultuous: on Sunday
my 10 year old, dearly beloved cat Pruts got run over by a car
(damn, that sucks!), the next day I 'm hearing that my contract at
Fiat Auto Belgio as a network admin will end permanently by the end
of March.
This is both (somewhat) a disappointment as it is more a relief
(about my job ...

Sorry for the inconvenience people. There seems to be a problem on
the Hyguard mirror. All the files have gone and I don 't know why
yet. In the meantime, try downloading from Planetmirror (give it a
minute before it kicks in) or try the alternative link on my old
webserver (2mbit line only, try to avoid that).
Now while I 'm submitting news: next version of TRK will include the
new version of Captive, the CD eject bug is solved, there 'll be a
script that will update TRK with new ...

I discovered a small bug, in that the TRK CD doesn 't eject on halt
or reboot. The fix is ready for the next release, but there won 't be
one until major bugs get found (and fixed) or decent features get
added.
Just to let you know before you contact me about it.

I 'm sorry folks, but some people have reported problems with adding
the ntfs driver files to TRK for captive-ntfs capabilities.
Turns out that with CDBurner XP Pro the CDRs became unbootable after
adding the files and reburning it. I 've never had problems with it,
so I was unable to recreate the situation.
But now finally someone found a much better way in the sense of
injecting the files into the iso before you burn it (I had looked a
bit but didn 't find any software that was capable ...

Someone had pointed out that adding captive-ntfs [1] was impossible
using the latest version of Nero (or at least the demo license) since
it closed the CD, leaving it unable to add more files afterwards.
I found a very good alternative, i.e. a FREE (and maybe even better)
alternative for CD burning under Windows: CDBurner XP Pro [2].
Links:
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[1] http://trinityhome.org/trk/usage.php#Gettingcaptiventfstowork
[2] http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Alive and kicking, another updated version of TRK released, TRK 3.0
build 204 and 204mdk. This time a major improvement: the addition of
the FUSE NTFS project [1] , which adds alternative ntfs write
capabilities in a safe and -more important- performant way. Using
'mountallfs -f' or 'ntfsmount' you can now talk to NTFS filesystems
and write to them (move, delete, new files, modify) and -unlike
captive-ntfs- without the need for extra file additions from
Microsoft. Only limitations are: max ...

Oh boy, 3 major announcements, all in one item.
-First start with the short news items: My cry for mirrors has been
heard: the kind people at Hyguard [1] have offered to rsync and
mirror Trinity Rescue Kit. Download speeds are up to as much as
10mbit and response times are very good. Thank you Hyguard!
-New build of TRK 3.0 available, number 201. Solved some bugs with
keyboard metacharacters and hopefully with startup hangs when
activating certain drivers
-New BRANCH of TRK 3.0 ...

It took a lot of hard work and I had to bite my tongue not to talk
about it before, but I did it: I finally managed to create a new
version of Trinity Rescue Kit, ready to save all those poor sick
computers.
We welcome TRINITY RESCUE KIT 3.0 And I 'm proud of my baby. Well
actually, it 's not a baby anymore: TRK has grown mature now, both in
features and free of bugs. Also the size has increased, but I guess I
stil managed to keep it considering what you get for it. And it 's
still free! ...

and why? Let 's keep that a secret for a couple a short while. But
people/organisations that want to mirror the TRK project and have
decent response/bandwidth, please tell me so asap(my server only has
512kbit/s). There 's an rsync stream available on
rsync://trinityhome.org::trkbins
As soon as your mirror is up and running, let me know and I will
link you to it and the world can expect something nice. That 's all I
'm going to say for now.

Not so much progress on TRK, nevertheless I 've sorted out and
documented some other stuff, which I 've published for you.
First I 've documented from A to Z how to mirror an existing Linux
installation in a safe way, including bootloader. You can find that
document on bootable RAID 1 here [1]
The other project is a bit more complicated but explains you how to
set up a transparent firewall + bandwidth manager + brouter. Since I
found no decent HOWTO on it, I had to figure it out ...

Thanks to the kind people of PlanetMirror I now have an extra fast
mirror for the Trinity Rescue Kit binaries. You can find it at
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/trk/ [1]
At the same time you will also find the unpublished, unfinished
version 2.0 of Trinity Rescue Kit. With this, I 'm releasing it for
what it is. It 's a non official, non finished version which will
never be finalised. It boots quite nicely, but many custom scripts
are broken and I can 't give you any support on it. But ...

]]>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:36:28 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=38Finally, new webserver is in place - looking behind and forwardhttp://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=37

Waw, a day before it will be one year that I made my last post here,
I 'm finally making a new one!
If you see this message, it means you are on the new webserver for
Trinityhome.org
For you it doesn 't mean much, just that it 's now on a 512kbit line
but without speed limitations during the daytime and that it runs
Mandrake 10. The hardware is only a PIII500 but will probably be
upgraded pretty soon.
On the front of a new version of TRK, I can 't promise you anything.
I would love to ...

Once again, sorry guys, TRK development is in a dip. However, that
doesn 't mean I 'm not doing anything.
Even more, I 'm trying to plan my time as effeciently as possible
and so I 'm currently working on a new webserver for TRK. Trinity has
bought themselves a Supermicro 1U server. Man this thing 's a speed
d(a)emon!
I 'm gonna run kernel 2.6.2 on it, so now I 've got a reason why I
should start working with the new kernel. This way, I 'm strongly
considering using 2.6 for TRK 2. ...

Sorry guys you haven 't been hearing from me lately, but I 've been
sooo busy. Actually, I haven 't had a single day off since my last
post. Today is my first and I 'm too tired to start working on TRK.
Wednesday is my 30th birthday, so I guess I 'll have to party don 't
u think.
Meanwhile, TRK was up to build 116 on Jan. 14, but I can 't release
this version publicly since it contains copyrighted M$ files
(ntfs.sys and NTOSKRNL.EXE). As soon as I have the chance, I 'll be
releasing a ...

I added the captive-ntfs project to TRK 2.0, which is at build 115
now. Captive-ntfs will allow you to access ntfs drives in full
read-write mode by using original MS drivers. Due to licensing
restrictions, I 'll not be able to include the necessary files
separately, so I 'll have you edit the ISO and add them yourself. I
'll explain later how to do it.
Meanwhile: TRK 2 boots nicely already. I 'm gonna start fixing some
details and scripts. Apparently I won 't be able to compile in ...

Binary upgrade to MDK 9.2 is as good as completed, I also changed
from Lilo to Isolinux no-emulation mode so I 'm not bound anymore by
floppy emu limitations. Next step is to go and build a new kernel.
Here 's a screenshot of the proposed new login screen. Only some
small changes with colors. If anybody has an artistic idea, let me
know...

Well, finally I 've started work for TRK 2.0. Yes yes, 2.0 because
it 'll be a major version upgrade with big changes and new features.
Here 's how I 'm going to be working:
1) Binary upgrade to Mandrake 9.2 binaries => ongoing, my VMWare
Mandrake machine has been upgraded, I 've searched all other packages
for their latest version. Will maybe release an intermediate version
with already some new tools.
2) Choice of kernel: 2.6 or still 2.4? I 'll probably go for the
"old" 2.4.22 ...

All of a sudden, my webserver started doing weird stuff lately.
Headhunter had been playing around on it using Webmin, which was
designed for Apache 1.3. Since this is an Apache 2.0, it kind of
messed up my config.
Found that problem, but a few days later my menus had disappeared.
SSI (Server Side Includes) was not working anymore. Finally found out
why it didn 't work, but I 'm more surprised why it DID work before!
It shouldn 't have! It was only half configured and should not have
worked. ...

I kicked out the ISP that hosted my DNS, I 'm doing it myself now.
If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself!
So, running BIND 9.2.2 now. Thank God the registrar was more
helpfull for the root server change.

People are reporting me that they can 't access trinityhome.org.
There is nothing wrong with the Apache webserver nor the ISP
connection. Apparently, it 's my DNS-host, Tronfonic. Once again.
They 'll probably put the blame again on another DDoS attack. I 'd
like to know whose toes they stepped on.
In the near future I 'll be doing my own DNS hosting...

Aiiiiieeeee: trinityhome.org has been down for days since 08 Oct.
03.
Cause: a power failure at the office, me being on holiday to Cuba and
nobody that knew how to fsck a Linux machine.
Sorry for that folks, next time I 'll use a UPS.

The newspage of Trinityhome called Weavernews has been updated to
version 0.29, along with a change in layout by Headhunter, which I
think is really cool.
Meanwhile, I haven 't been too busy on Trinity Rescue Kit. That 's
because I 'm abroad for my company in Copenhagen, Denmark since two
weeks now. I 'll be coming home pretty soon, hope I 'll have the
time to continue work on the next version of TRK.

Some minor enhancements, like support for Gigabit ethernet cards and
new tools like tcpdump, netcat and stuff for hardware testing.
Subscribe to the forum/mailinglist to receive the news when it 's
out.

I just added the PhpBB2 bulletin board to Trinityhome.org, so anyone
who feels like discussing Trinity Rescue Kit, has a question or likes
to announce something to the community can join in on the discussion
forum [1].
Registering to the forum will also keep you informed about new
releases to come (low traffic).
P.S. Beware, I 'll be on holiday starting from Thursday until next
Monday, so your questions might be answered a little late.
Links:
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[1] ...

It seems that the extreme activity on the webserver from the last
days was due to the appearance in a newsletter from Tech Republic.
Somebody pointed that out to me, but unfortunately he had already
deleted the mail.
In the mean time I 've received it from other people, but it was
apparently from Winnetmag and was originally adapted from ntfaq.com
(with the correct URL this time).
Thanks for all the response

Ever since TRK got referred to on NTFaq, activity on Trinityhome has
been skyrocketing. I 'm looking at 1000 downloads a day now. Even
with the still broken link on ntfaq, people still seem to find
Trinityhome easily.
Although most downloads are over the mirror, I still get a lot local
downloads, hitting bandwidth usage unceasingly to the ceiling. These
files are just there in case the mirror would be down. So to limit
local bandwidth some more, I 've put 4 different compression ...

http://ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=39671 [1]
Unfortunately, an error appeared in the URL, leading to a dead link:
http://trinityhome.org.trk/index.html [2] instead of
http://trinityhome.org/trk/index.html [3]. Even then, people managed
to get to the TRK, since my acces logs where 3 times as high today as
any other day.
John Savill from ntfaq.com is about to correct the problem.
Links:
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[1] http://ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=39671
[2] ...

I 'm looking for fast mirrors. If anyone would like to mirror the
binaries on a fast link, please contact me, harakiri.
TRK has been submitted to SourceForge as a project. Let 's hope it
gets accepted, then I 'll have plenty of mirrors.
If your download is slow, try also the mirror at my home ISP,
Pandora for trinity-rescue-kit.1.1-build-98.iso.gz. [1] This should
be a very fast link. It 's just the iso.gz file, but it 's
unpackable in both Linux (of course) as well as the ...

TRK 1.1 b98 seems quite alright so far, except I have one machine
where the kernel panics on startup. It 's a dual Intel server with 2
PIII 750's. It panics when trying to scan the PCI bus. Very weird,
versions of TRK with a custom Mandrake kernel boot ok. But then
again, trying TRK 1.1 b98 in a completely similar machine (same mobo,
2x PIII 800), it boots ok. I 've tried recompiling the kernel, but
all my defaults I normally use are there and yet still it panics.
If one of you has had ...

For those who have read that Partition Image on TRK 1.1 b98 was
broken: false alarm!! It didn 't work on one PC, but that had a bad
CD reader (nl. Creative 52x, yuk!!!) and probably read it
corruptedly. It 's working fine as we speak on another machine.
Fiiieeuw, no new build needed... :-D

Pffffff!!! A lot of sweat and mindtwisting (no tears though),
Trinity Rescue Kit 1.1 is out. And I call it stable enough, already
at build 98. I think I 've removed all the bugs and added all the
features I planned to add in this release.
Go ahead and give it a try [1].
Here are the changes since my last post on build 93:
-two different ntfs modules, ntfs.o is version 2.1.4a ans ntfs1.o is
version 1.1.21, which still has writing capabilities (although
dangerous)
-mountallfs is much ...

Ok, build 93 is out, but tomorrow I 'll bring out build 94, which
should at last have ntfs write support. Apparently, after kernel
2.4.17 they brought in completely new ntfs code which is faster and
more stable but has no more write support, even if you tell it so.
So I 'm attempting to reverse engineer the 2.4.17 ntfs code into the
2.4.21 kernel. Let 's see how that turns out.
Meanwhile, the pcmcia nic detection looks like it 's working well.
It tries loading every module and unloads ...

Alrighty then, almost finished. I hope. I hope I don 't come up with
any new features. Anyway: most bugs are out, or almost. Find the
latest version in the download section...
Lets 's see:
-gpm: run mouseps2 for a ps2 mouse and mouseser for generic serial
mouse support.
-devfs errors fixed (just removed some non-existent stuff which wasn
't needed)
-eject cdrom WORKS!!! Actually, it was quite simple to have it work,
but like most simple solutions, they 're sometimes hard to find ;)
Still ...

Inspite of the remaining bugs, TRK 1.1 build 90 is now at the same
stability level as was 1.0 with already lots of extra features.
Standing or new bugs:
-gpm mouse service: forgot all about it, but it 's still not ok, you
have to manually start it
-devfs errors: fixed in new build
-still no PCMCIA network card detection: making script that tests
them all and loads the appropriate one
-eject cdrom: any suggestions what could be the problem anybody?
"lsof" doesn 't show any open file on cd ...

Some debugging from version 89, but with a newer version of kudzu.
I' m very curious on testing this on a laptop.
Bugs fixed since build 89:
-upgraded from Kudzu 0.99-99 to 1.1.3-1.1 and updated hwdata-0.87-1.1
-TRKx option 6: virusscan flag is now set, it checks if you 've
chosen nr. 2 network and depending on that option it will or won 't
update your .def files first.
-Lilo keyboard language default in US English qwerty
-Lilo wait timeout from 5 to 10 seconds on demand of ...

Apparently, Internet Explorer had some weird behaviour when
downloading .gz compressed files: it downloaded the complete
uncompressed iso file, making it look like your browser kept
downloading infinitely.
What it did what it did was a behaviour by Apache design, but very
annoying:
It seems that the default config of Apache 2 on Mandrake has the next
lines in its config,
with the following comment:
#
# AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+)
uncompress
...

Yes I know, yet another new version of Trinity Rescue Kit
Yes, again with lots of bug fixes.
Seriously: this one should become a release candidate. It has a new
feature in the startup screen: when you switch to text mode with
ctrl+X, you can try TRKx and put some numbers behind it. These
numbers will be taken into account as specific startup parameters. It
has 7 possible parameters:
1: Run kudzu
2: Dhcpcd
3: Belgian keyboard
4: Run scripts from floppy
And then the new possibilities
5: ...

Again, many bugfixes in this one:
-mountallfs.sh is fixed and way better than when it used to work in
0.5. It now makes less garbage output.
-virusscan.sh: you can set a flag: -upd or -noupd meaning it can scan
for viruses and update first from ftp.f-prot.com [1] or it can just
go ahead with the current definitions van June 12.
-devfs gets mounted
-partimage is broken, misses a library. Will fix it tomorrow
-hwdata should be updated and able to detect USB and pcmcia devices.
Needs ...

Been testing it on a few computers and as I expected since this is
the first release after the major binary upgrade, some stuff still
doesn 't work. Luckilly, most things that did work in TRK 1.0 are
still not broken, except that devfsd doesn 't get mounted for some
reason.
Some old bugs still remain:
-Still no autodetection of PCMCIA cards. I 'm thinking of putting the
different PCMCIA sockets alltogether hardcoded in the kernel, since I
won quite some space compared to the kernel from TRK ...

Sorry folks, forgot to check the download links to TRK 1.1, you
probably got a 404.
Fixed now.
Thx Headhunter for pointing that out. Means you were actually trying
to use TRK 1.1 ;-)

]]>Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:06:32 +0100http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=5A new webpage and a new version of TRKhttp://trinityhome.org/Home/blog_comments.php?front_id=24&blog_cat_id=2&blog_id=4

Big day for TRK:
Since months after TRK 1.0 I 've been sort of working on a new
design, interface and structure for the Trinity Rescue Kit's
homepage, but was never quite happy with the result.
Now I content myself with this blue-ish/orange/black design because
the first working new build of TRK 1.1 is out!. I 've started work on
that one last Friday, and behold [1]
So I thought this would be a good day to publish it all. Some things
may still look quick and dirty, but that 's bound to ...